Event Description

Producer (Author/Editor) Larry Platt presents:

Kelce (2024)

Larry Platt conceived, wrote and produced this Emmy-award-winning documentary about the off-field life of football star Jason Kelce, which became the most-watched film in Amazon history.

 In September 2015 Platt founded The Philadelphia Citizen, a non-profit, nonpartisan, multi-platform news organization focusing on solutions-oriented journalism, with a growing, influential audience of 1.2 million local patriots.

Platt is author of numerous books, including New Jack Jocks: Rebels, Race and the American Athlete (Temple 2002), Keepin’ It Real: A Season at the Crossroads with the NBA (Avon, 1998), Only The Strong Survive: The Odyssey of Allen Iverson (Regan, 2002), and co-author of Every Day I Fight (2015), the New York Times bestselling memoir of ESPN sportscaster and cancer- fighter Stuart Scott. Platt has contributed to the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Playboy, New York magazine, Sports Illustrated and Salon.com

F.I.L.M. events are free and open to the public.

Support for F.I.L.M. events is provided by the Dean of Faculty Office, the Kirkland Endowment, and the Cinema and Media Studies major.

Events are curated and organized by Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, Scott MacDonald.